On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:04:39 EST, Steven Rostedt said: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:37:37 +0200, =?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur > > said: > > > And because of mcount-add-basic-support-for-gcc-profiler-instrum.patch, > > > closed > > > source nvidia-new module cannot be used with this release (mcount is > > > exported > > > GPL only), i know this is not supported but i used it with that [2] patch > > > up > > > until now without a single problem. > > > > Playing devil's advocate here - the claim is that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is to > > indicate that code is getting too chummy with Linux internals. > > > > However, in *this* case, isn't it "code that is too chummy with *GCC* > > internals", > > and thus it isn't our place to say what can and can't be done with code that > > is derivative of the GCC compiler? ;) > > Actually, it got put in there by accident. I usually default all my > exports as GPL. But this breaks pretty much everything, so I'll leave it > as EXPORT_SYMBOL.
OK, I can live with that. ;)
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